Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 651 Captured
On the road that was built only a few years ago, the ragged remnants of the European Holy Alliance retreated southward in panic.Clement was among these defeated troops, full of panic.

The organization of the army had already been dismantled, and what was even more shameful was that the officers actually abandoned the soldiers at this time, boarded the car aided by Daming, and ran away first.Occasionally, Xiqing's fighter jets would appear on the battlefield. When these fighter jets passed by at low altitude, they would fire machine guns and kill a large number of European deserters.

Clement sighed, he didn't know why he had fallen to where he is now.He was just a Chinese-speaking accountant hired by the military supply department, but when the war inevitably collapsed, he became one of the defeated troops.

Clement did not witness the collapse with his own eyes, but he heard that groups of European troops rushed forward, but were defeated by the armored soldiers and cannons of the Qing army. In the end, the European troops trapped in the encirclement had nothing to do. Can only surrender to the Qing army.

Clement was not at the front, so as soon as the rout occurred he ran off with the others.

"In fact, there are not many people in the entire army who have the determination to fight." Clement sighed.

When he was studying in Daming many years ago, he had the honor to visit the military open day of the Ming army. He was deeply impressed by the mental state and appearance of the soldiers of the Ming army.He believes that such an army is the real soldier. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty knew that they were fighting for the country. Their light and glory came from this mission that not everyone could afford, so they did not have to fight on the battlefield. Fear of sacrifice, but also train themselves meticulously.So this army was loved and supported by the people within Daming.

This is not the case for the French army. Although the French army has undergone relatively major innovations in recent years, after all, this French army still has a lot of incomplete dross.The noble and feudal ranks in this army are very strong, and the officers don't respect their soldiers, and the soldiers don't look down on their fat officers.Even though these soldiers have received the most cutting-edge weapons from Ming Dynasty, they still have in their minds the old-fashioned way of shooting in square formations, and they can't adapt to the modern war situation at all.

"France is a painted skin, which can be broken with a single poke." Clement once had such emotion, and now someone has finally pierced this painted skin for France, exposing the ugly France to the world. This person is Xi Qing empire.

"We must go home and leave Paris with Irina and the children. France is going to be finished. This country is not worthy of attachment. I can understand Chinese, can write and count, after all, it is an advantage. Now there are people everywhere in the Atlantic Ocean. They are all refugee ships from Ming Dynasty, sending European refugees to the Ming colony in the Caribbean Sea... Although it is a colony, it is managed by Ming after all. It is much brighter and fairer than France. Most importantly, it is very far away from Europe. If there is no war, our family will be able to live in peace!" Clement thought, full of fighting spirit.Even though he hasn't eaten properly for two days now, he is constantly on his way, hoping to escape.

Only sometimes, fate is always full of elements of fooling.

A lightly armed unit of the Qing army appeared in front of the fleeing soldiers.

Seeing the defeated soldiers, the Qing army didn't say anything, and first greeted them with machine guns.The European soldiers have long been terrified, watching a large number of soldiers and civilians die at gunpoint, but they have no desire to take up arms to resist.

Many soldiers dropped their weapons directly, knelt on the ground and howled, surrendering to the Qing army.

"Kneel down! Raise your hands!" The oriental officer of the Qing army riding a tall horse shouted arrogantly to all the defeated troops and common people.

He held a leather whip in his hand, and the whip fell on whoever disliked him.

Clement was terrified, and his eyes were fixed on the braids behind the heads of the group of soldiers.He once stayed in Daming.I know how disgusted Mingren is with this braid.Most of the people in front of them are white, and they can be seen as old Slavs at a glance.However, these Slavs also had a short money rat tail trailing behind their heads. Their expressions were indifferent, and they stared at the defeated troops as if they were staring at a group of dead people.

Seeing Clement looking at him, the officer was very unhappy, and raised his whip to whip him.Who knew that Clement suddenly shouted loudly in Chinese: "Forgive me, please spare me!"

The officer's whip flicked in the air and made a crackling sound, but it didn't land on Clement.The officer was a little curious: "Wu Nafan, how can you speak my Mandarin?"

Chinese was widely used in the Western Qing Dynasty, but they called this language Guoyu. Because whether it was called Chinese or Hanyu, it was not friendly to the embarrassing existence of the Western Qing Dynasty, so it was simply called Guoyu.

Clement was not stupid, he hurriedly said that he had learned from others, but did not say that he had studied abroad in Daming.

The officer was quite satisfied: "Very good. It happens that there is a lack of interpreters in the official camp. You can speak Mandarin and French. You can join the military camp over there and serve the court of our country."

Clement couldn't refuse. He believed that as long as he didn't say a word, he would be killed by the Xiqing officer.

"Elena, children..." Clement looked in the direction of Paris, full of helplessness.

He and a group of defeated troops were put on military trucks and transported to the rear.This vast land has become a racing ground for the Western Qing army. The European Holy Alliance Army has collapsed and had to give up here.

Clement went to the front-line base camp of the Qing army, and fear never left him.He didn't know what was going to meet him, but he was determined to live on.

This is a prisoner-of-war camp, where countless European soldiers and even civilians are held in crude buildings.Most of these soldiers were Dutch, and there were tens of thousands of French.Every soldier was obviously shocked in the same way, with pale faces.

On the other side of the prison camp, Clement met a group of Germans.They wore simple military uniforms, obviously obtained from the Austrians, and only the armbands showed that they now served the Western Qing Empire.Clement saw that the heads of these Germans had been shaved. Because their hair was not long, it was difficult to braid it, but many people had their heads shaved on half and both sides. Her hair was tied into pigtails, and it was obvious that when she grew it long, she would become a money rat tail.

(End of this chapter)